Introduction

Modern investigations of Heterocera moths in the Republic of Daghestan have been undertaken annually since 1998. Originally it was the Noctuidae moth family (POLTAVSKY & ILYINA, 2002, 2003; MATOV, ILYINA & POLTAVSKY, 2012). Now we have begun the study of the Pyraloidea moths, which were collected simultaneously with noctuids. The current Pyraloidea list of Daghestan includes 93 species. Most of them are listed for the North-East Caucasus (Chechenia and Daghestan) (SINEV, 2008a, 2008b), basing on a few earlier publications (CHRISTOPH, 1877; RAGONOT, 1901; ROMANOFF, 1887). We report here 10 species as new for Daghestan.

Material and methods

Snout-moths were collected by hand-catching on white screen, attracted by mercury vapour lamps (HQM) ‘DRL’ 300 W. We have analysed 483 Pyraloidea specimens altogether during the total period of study. The collecting sites of the new species are listed below (with geographical coordinates). They belong to 5 mountain areas at different heights above sea level (a.s.l.). Species determination was checked by Dr. Sergey Sinev, Zoological Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) and Tatyana Trofimova, Samara State university. Digital photos of Pyraloidea moths were made with a Nikon D-90 camera and retouched for publication using CorelPhotoPaint-5 program. Represented material is stored in the private collection of A. Poltavsky (Rostov-on-Don, Russia).

Collecting sites in Daghestan:

Lowlands: Karaman-2 - village in the suburb of Makhatchkala town (43 02’ 07.8”N, 47º 26’ 25.2”E).

Foothills: Sarykum - large single sand dune in the Kumtor-Kale District (43 00’ 33”N, 47 13’ 51”E).

Front mountain-ranges: Barshamay - village in Kajtagsky District, 400 m a.s.l. (42 06’ 42.7”N, 47º 50’ 52.9”E); Dylym - village in Kazbekovsky District, 655 m a.s.l. (43º 04’ 29.0”N, 46º 37’ 43.5”E); Ersy - village in Tabasaransky District, 800 m a.s.l. (42º 01’ 20.5”N, 48º 00’ 26.8”E); Gertma - village in Kazbekovsky District, 1200 m a.s.l. (42º 59’ 26.8”N, 46º 45’ 01.1”E).

Central mountain area: Chirkata - village in Gumbetovsky District, 425 m a.s.l. (42º 46’ 56.0”N, 46º 42’ 59.6”E); Salda - village in Tljarata District, 1800 m a.s.l. (41º 58’ 28.6”N, 46º 30’ 34.4”E); Upper Kazanishe - village in Buinaksk District, 1000 m a.s.l. (42º 43’ 18.9”N, 47º 08’ 08.8”E).

Highlands: Kala village in Rutul District, 1500 m a.s.l. (41º 34’ 40.8”N, 47 21’ 12.3”E); Kurush - village in Dokuzparinsky Distrist, 2500 m a.s.l. (43º 22’ 56.4”N, 46º 46’ 03.7”E); Rutul - village, centre of Rutul District, 1300 m a.s.l. (41º 32’ 03.9”N, 47º 26’ 24.0”E).

Results

PYRALIDAE

Phycitinae

Praeepischnia iranella Amsel, 1953 (Figs. 15-17)

Material examined: 1 1, 2 00, Daghestan, Kala, 10-VII-2011 (coll.: P. Alieva). New record for Russia.

General distribution: North-eastern Iran (AMSEL, 1953; MOHAMMADIAN, 2006).

Eurhodope rosella (Scopoli, 1763) (Fig. 10)

Material examined: 1 0, Daghestan, Upper Kazanishe, 25-VI-1999; 1 0 (coll.: E. Ilyina).

Daghestan, Salda, 25-VII-2014 (coll.: E. Ilyina). New record for Daghestan.

General distribution: European-Caucasus. Southern and Central Europe, Transcaucasus (available from http://www.lepiforum.de), European Russia, South Ural, North-West Caucasus (SINEV, 2008a).

Ancylosis dumetella Ragonot, 1887 (Figs. 8, 9)

Material examined: 1 0, Daghestan, Chirkata, 15-VII-2013 (coll.: G.-M. Habiev). New Record for Daghestan.

General distribution: original description and type locality (Kuldsha, NW China) (RAGONOT, 1887); Iran (KOÇAK & KEMAL, 2012); South Siberia (SINEV, 2008a). Afro-Iranian-Siberian, Algeria, Iran, Turkey (available from http://en.wikipedia.org/);

CRAMBIDAE

Crambinae

Euchromius bleszynskiellus Popescu-Gorj, 1964 (Figs. 5, 6)

Material examined: 1 1, Daghestan, Dylym, 3-VIII-2014 (coll.: G.-M. Habiev). New record for Daghestan.

General distribution: Euro-Anatolien: Wolga-Don area, South Ural (SINEV, 2008b); South Ukraine (GOVORUN, 2008); Greece, Romania (KARSHOLT & RAZOWSKI, 1996); Turkey (KOÇAK & KEMAL, 2009).

Crambus monochromellus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 (Figs. 11-14)

Material examined: 1 1, Daghestan, Kurush, 2-VII-2014 (coll.: E. Ilyina). New record for Daghestan.

General distribution: Euro-Asian mountainous: Alpes, Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Central Asia (BURMANN, 1976), North-West Caucasus (SHCHUROV & LAGOSHINA, 2013),Tibet, Central China (available from http://baike.baidu.com/).

Remarks: A single specimen collected has an extremely dark color and gnathos much shorter in comparison to specimen from Alpes. SLAMKA (2008) referred Crambus monochromellus as a valid species, but then is was synonymized with Crambus perlellus (Scopoli, 1763) (KARSHOLT et al., 2013).

Xanthocrambus lucellus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1848) (Figs. 4, 7)

Material examined: 1 1, Daghestan, Ersy, 6-VII-2008 (coll.: E. Ilyina). New record for Daghestan.

General distribution: Amphipalaearctic. Europe, North-West Caucasus, South Siberia, Far East (SINEV, 2008b), Europe, Korea, China and Japan (available from http://en.wikipedia.org/).

Evergestinae

Evergestis manglisalis Erschoff, 1877 (Figs. 1, 3)

Material examined: 1 0, Daghestan, Rutul, 10-VIII-2014 (coll.: E. Ilyina). New record from Daghestan.

General distribution: Type locality: Transcaucasus (Georgia, Manglis) (ERSCHOFF, 1877), Armenia (KOÇAK & KEMAL, 2012). North-West Caucasus (SINEV, 2008b). Endemic to Caucasus.

Glaphyriinae

Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1794) (Figs. 20-22)

Material examined: 1 1, Daghestan, Karaman-2, 25-VIII-2014 (coll.: E. Ilyina); 1 1, same locality, 18-X-2014 (coll.: E. Ilyina); 1 0, Daghestan, Sarykum, 24-VIII-2013 (coll.: E. Ilyina). New Record for Daghestan.

General distribution: Euro-Paleotropical: European Russia (SINEV, 2008b); Western Europe, Africa, Asia Minor, Iraq, Pakistan, China, India, Malaysia, South-East Asia, Philippines, Hawaii Islands, Australia (available from http://www.plantwise.org/).

Pyraustinae

Udea olivalis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) (Fig. 2)

Material examined: 2 11, 1 0, Daghestan, Salda, 25-VII-2014 (coll.: E. Ilyina). New record for Daghestan.

General distribution: Euro-Anatolian. Western Europe, European Russia, South Ural, North-West Caucasus (SINEV, 2008b); Turkey (KOÇAK & KEMAL, 2009).

Pyrausta aerealis (Hübner, 1793) (Figs. 18-19)

Material examined: 1 1, Daghestan, Chirkata, 14-VII-2014 (coll.: E. Ilyina). New record for Daghestan.

General distribution: Mediterranean-Centralasian. Europe, Algeria, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,

Afghanistan, China, Algeria (available from http://en.wikipedia.org/), North-West Caucasus (SHCHUROV & LAGOSHINA, 2013); Iran, Turkey (KOÇAK & KEMAL, 2012).

Discussion

Of the ten reported snout-moth species - nine are new for the fauna of Daghestan republic and one (Praeepischnia iranella Amsel) is new for the fauna of Russia. All species have different types of geographical ranges. Their presence in Daghestan is not surprise, since they are known in the adjacent regions. Among the reported species there is one potential agricultural pest – a Cabbage Webworm Hellula undalis (F.). It’s findings in some regions of European Russia (SINEV, 2008b), could be explained by occasional introduction with vegetables, but on the territory of Daghestan this thermophilic species may find suitable climate conditions for stable development. Three specimens of Hellula undalis collected here were rather worn, which could be a result of migratory activity.

Agradecimientos

We are grateful to Dr. Sergey Sinev (St. Petersburg) and Dr. Tatyana Trofimova (Samara) for their help in the identification of moths.

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